Proven leader in field technical sale. Twenty-five-year record building teams and leading technology businesses through dramatic growth. Repeatedly drives customer adoption that results in major revenue and critical company wins. Excellent leadership and analytic skills applied in dynamic technology environments with entrenched and new competitors. Drives revenue across defense, government intelligence, and commercial business, using a combination of business acumen and technical expertise over a wide variety of technology areas. Specialties: Big Data ▪ Enterprise Software ▪ Cloud Computing ▪ DoD ▪ Intelligence Community ▪ Civilian Government ▪ Media and Publishing ▪ Customer Solutions ▪ Team Building ▪ DBMS ▪ Enterprise Search ▪ NoSQL ▪ Space Sensing ▪ Radar ▪ Clearance with Poly

SVP US Public Sector @ Leading government business unit for the premier vendor of multilingual text analytics and digital forensics. From September 2015 to Present (3 months) Washington D.C. Metro AreaPrincipal Technologist and Tech Director @ Provided technical leadership for major implementations by government and commercial customers. Specialities included enterprise architecture, cloud deployment of clusters of thousands of servers, and demonstrating database sizes over a petabyte. Assisted government departments and Fortune 20 companies deploying enterprise-wide implementations of MongoDB-as-a-Service, each able to run dozens of mission-critical applications with high availability and zero scheduled maintenance downtime. From May 2013 to September 2015 (2 years 5 months) Federal CTO, VP @ Technical lead for company’s Government business, driving customer decisions to base their core mission systems on a novel software product for Big Data applications. As the company’s senior technical field executive, leads the Office of the CTO and the technical mission of the company’s Washington, DC office. Provides technical leadership for pre- and post-sales field engineering teams that have grown from a single person to twenty-eight personnel. Working directly with field Sales organization, grew Public Sector unit’s revenue over twenty-fold during six year tenure. The unit became primary growth driver for entire company, expanding from four to over sixty total staff. Persuaded technical and business owners for over twenty mission-critical systems to adopt MarkLogic, seizing business opportunities from the dominant database and search vendors. Worked to hire, train, and develop field engineering teams that deliver on-time implementations, exceeding expectations and providing 60-100X improvements in performance and reliability, typically with 75% cost savings. Featured speaker on behalf of government, commercial, and European business events. From April 2006 to May 2013 (7 years 2 months) Principal Architect and Programs Manager @ Created and supervised pre- and post-sales implementation of unstructured data retrieval and knowledge management systems for some of the largest enterprise-class applications in the world, including e-commerce, e-publishing, message handling, Internet, and Intranet business portals. Lead technical role, growing a team of 16 consultants and developers in realizing the largest product and services sale in company history, creating the core engine for Bloomberg News’s primary customer-facing system. Established Verity’s presence at government agency in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, as sole cleared employee in company. Demonstrated dramatic successes in solving difficult intelligence and counter-terrorism problems, providing a springboard for Verity’s domination of Knowledge Management applications across the US Intelligence Community. Within four years of the initial $15K opportunity, these applications grew to over $20M in license revenue and 3-9 full-time consultants. From July 2000 to April 2006 (5 years 10 months) Executive Officer @ Second in command of unit supporting the Naval Center for Space Technology. Provided daily leadership for all operations, mission priorities, and personnel issues for a 25-officer Naval Reserve unit. Implemented an online organizational system that tripled recruitment and coordination of Naval Reservists contributing to NRL projects. Assisted NRL and ONR with development of next-generation Interrogation Friend or Foe (IFF) systems. Combined warfare specialty knowledge with broad technology base for Naval Research, including areas of space sensing, adaptive radar, autonomous underwater vehicles, and cyber security. From February 1991 to September 2004 (13 years 8 months) Founder and CEO @ Lead development, marketing, and sales of Producers Edge, a customer relationship management system for mortgage originators and real estate agents. Hired and built effective teams for development and sales. Personally managed corporate finances and marketing strategy. Producers Edge remains in use in 2012. From January 1991 to July 2000 (9 years 7 months) Radar Intercept Officer @ Operated radar, communications, and weapon systems in F-14 Tomcat carrier-based fighter aircraft. Lead squadron Avionics / Armaments Division with 86 personnel at all levels from trainee to career Petty Officer From 1979 to January 1991 (12 years)

MS, Computer Science @ University of Maryland From 1982 to 1983 BS, Computer Mathematics @ US Naval Academy From 1979 to 1983 Chris Biow is skilled in: Enterprise Software, Cloud Computing, Big Data, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Search, Databases, SaaS, Integration, Solution Selling, Distributed Systems, Solution Architecture, Software Development, XML, Program Management, Agile Methodologies